Environmental Education Workshops 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th class were very excited to start this five week work shop with Aoife Munn yesterday. She will cover a range of topics…
3rd Class Update – September
We’ve been having a busy time this September settling into 3rd class. We had great fun playing snowball stories where we all started a story on a page. Next we…
The Native Americans – 5th & 6th Class
Mr. Coughlan's 5th and 6th class have been learning all about Native Americans and their culture in History. We investigated different Native American artefacts and worked as curators to decide…
September 2017 – What’s been happening…
Welcome Junior Infants A very warm welcome to our 23 adorable Junior Infants and their families for 2017! These wonderful children marched in on their first day full of smiles,…
Welcome back
Welcome back everyone. It was lovely to see so many happy faces on Thursday morning! I hope you all had a lovely Summer break and are ready for the new…
Ms. Byrne travels to South Africa!
Mellon Educate teaching Blitz 2017 : Ms. Byrne travels to South Africa! This Summer our school principal Ms. Byrne travelled to Capetown, South Africa as a volunteer on the inaugural Mellon…
Book Lists and School Holidays 2017/2018
We are approaching the end of the Academic Year for 2016/2017, we are also beginning to prepare for the new school year in September 2017. With that in mind you…
June 2017 Newsletter
Our final newsletter for this year is now available - June Newsletter. As always, there is lots going on, the newsletter includes all the events related to your child's class…
4th Class School Trip: The Best Fun In Baltinglass – by Dan Walsh
The Best Fun In Baltinglass When 4th class from St Patricks N.S. went to Baltinglass Co. Wicklow, they had the most fun! First they went to the NEW ZIPLINE. They were the…
Making Rockets in 4th Class
We had great fun exploring in science . We made rockets with our student teacher Ms.Grey before Easter. We also measured how far they could travel. Thanks Ms. Grey. This…
2nd Class Holy Communion 2017
Congratulations to our 2nd class children who made their First Holy Communion on Saturday in St. Patrick's Church. A sincere thank you to all who helped to make it such…
Homework Survey Results
At St. Patrick’s NS we are continuously reviewing and evaluating our educational practice. This year, we examined homework in our school and we welcomed the views of parents, staff and…
May 2017 Newsletter
We are now in our 3rd and Final term for the Academic School year 2016/2017. Can you believe it? As always the last term is busy one. Please read our May Newsletter…
April 2017 Newsletter
The months are rolling on and the Easter Holidays begin on Friday at 12.30, please remember to join us for our Annual Cake Sale. Read our April Newsletter as a taster of…
Tidy Schools 2017 By Nathan O’ Hanlon
We have been very busy getting ready for our tidy schools competition this year. We have done a big clean up on our garden with Denis and Ms. Skelly and…
Irish Aid Projects – Our Song: Global Goals By Kelli-Ann, Rachel, Ruby, Luisa and Erin
We came up with the idea to recreate this song so children can learn about the Global Goals and what Irish Aid does to help our partner countries. We did…
Irish Aid Projects – Comparing Life in Vietnam by Hannah Kennedy and Ava Cannon
We chose to take a further look into life in 1 of our 8 partner countries, Vietnam, to show people how different their life is to ours. We chose this…
Irish Aid Projects – Our Global Goals – By Jack Keane and James Roe
We did a Powerpoint presentation about the Global Goals and Ireland eight partners. In our powerpoint we explained what life was like in Ireland's partner countries and how Irish Aid…
Fishing experiments in First Class
The children in First Class have been making magnets. First of all the children made paper fish, they cut them out and coloured them in. A little paper clip was…
Making Rockets in First Class
First class have made some amazing rockets in Art from recycled materials.